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From: | Juergen Harms |
Subject: | [avr-chat] Alternatives for minicom |
Date: | Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:59:24 +0100 |
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I have had some problems making minicom on work a new Linux release - it works now. But, solving the problem made me have a closer look at minicom: I decided to explore alternatives (after patching it works nicely, but looking a the code it does not look "sound": curses-based, all the not-needed modem stuff, lot of dead code carried along for systems that pratcically do not exist any more, and the configuration looks messy - conflicts between the nice curses based dynamic configuration of minicom and the "make-oriented" static configuration mechanism in the shipped package). The result is overly complex and looks diffcult to mainain - how long will it survive?
What alternatives can other Linux users suggest? Thanks!
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